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Goodbye from Vanilla
(Edition date : 2006)
| Author(s) : | Christine Mathieu |
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Australia | | Publisher : | Littlefox |
| Number of page : | 372 |
| ISBN : | 978-0-980 2872-02 |
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Goodbye from Vanilla is a romantic and mildly philosophical satire set in the academic and café society of Fremantle in Western Australia during the late 1980s early 90s. Mocking the excesses of various schools of post-modernism (headed by the ultra-famous and French philosopher Louis Culfaux, the founder of the school of post-communication), the nascent corporate restructuration of the university, and the propensity for religious fanaticism, the novel is a warm, funny, sometimes acidic, sometimes poignant reflection on truth, life, love, friendship, and a peculiar blend of cosmopolitan provincialism.
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Christine Mathieu was born and raised in France. She holds a doctorate in Asian Studies and has lived in Australia, China and the United States. She is the author of an anthropological history of the Sino-Tibetan frontier (A History and Anthropological Study of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland, Mellen Press, 2003), and a literary memoir, Leaving Mother Lake (Little Brown, 2003), which she has translated and adapted into French as Adieu au lac mère avec Yang Erche Namu (Calmann-Lévy, 2005).
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